Promotional photo of Billy Woods by Natalia Vacheishvili

Best of 2025

Albums
  1. Billy Woods – Golliwog
  2. Lindstrom – Sirius Syntoms
  3. Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
  4. Xhosa Cole – On A Modern Genius Vol. 1
  5. Various Artists – Different Circles: Ping Volume One
  6. Bill Orcutt – Another Perfect Day
  7. Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer
  8. Bitchin Bajas – Inland See
  9. Joe Lovano – Homage
  10. Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love
  11. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills – That Wasn’t A Dream
  12. Trio of Bloom (Nels Cline, Craig Taborn, Marcus Gilmore)
  13. Piers Faccini and Ballake Sissoko – Our Calling
  14. Chris Corsano Bill Orcutt – Empty Bottle
  15. Orcutt Shelley Miller – Orcutt Shelley Miller
  16. Djrum – Under Tangled Silence
  17. Rich Dawson – End of the Middle
  18. Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet
  19. Pulp – More
  20. Various Artists – Kompakt Total 25
Singles Not on Top 20 Albums

Offset – Run It Up
Central Cee ft 21 Savage – GBP
Justin Bieber – Daisies
Tame Impala – Loser
Slick Rick – Stress
Bancal – Brancard
Nine Inch Nails – Infiltrator

REISSUES

Polygon Window – Surfing On Sine Waves
OutKast – Stankonia

GIGS
  1. New York Winter Jazzfest (Jenny Scheinman, Trio Imagination w/ Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, David Virelles, Paul Cornish, Darius Jones, Matthew Shipp), City Winery and Loove Labs, Jan 10-11
  2. John Zorn: New  Masada Quartet, Roulette, May 23
  3. aya and Eye, Powerhouse Arts, Dec. 5
  4. Gwenifer Raymond at Public Records, Dec. 6
  5. Outlook Festival: Michael Rother Plays Neu! and Harmonia, Knockdown Center, Mar. 30

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